Tories plan NHS destruction

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OPERATIONS and drugs will be rationed in a ‘trade-off with improving care in other areas’, Head of NHS England Simon Stevens said yesterday,...
Mass demonstration in August last year leading to the defeat of the government’s vote to authorise air strikes on Syria

Vote Today On UK Joining Air Strikes On Iraq

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PARLIAMENT has been recalled from its summer break today especially to vote on whether the UK will join the US-led air strikes against ISIL...
Thousands marched fromn the BMA headquarters to Westminster demanding that the NHS Health Bill be smashed – it is now law and workers are determined to fight it

SACK THE COALITION! – to keep our hospitals open

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THE Hewletts came straight to the point yesterday over the plan to close Chase Farm hospital. ‘We should sack Lansley and the whole government to...

Security Council warns Israel ‘Don’t dare diminish UNRWA’s operations!’

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THE Members of the Security Council emphasised the vital role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in providing...

Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers

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EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...
Bob Crow, RMT members and commuters rally at Waterloo Station yesterday to denounce double inflation rise in rail fares and call for re-nationalisation

No fare rises – re-nationalise!

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RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...
The banner of the trades union at the state arms and munitions factory at Tanagra in central Greece. It reads ‘Defence industries must remain 100% state owned – no to privatisation’

‘We are putting up gallows for you’ – Greek workers tell MPs

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THREE thousand workers staged a militant march through Athens on Thursday, despite temperatures of 40 degrees, demanding the overthrow of the government and an...
London demonstration in May 2004 calling for an end to the occupation of Iraq

Hamas Landslide!

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Jubilant Palestinian masses were yesterday celebrating the historic election victory of Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The final results declared at 5pm yesterday saw Hamas take...
Striking school meals staff at Haggerston school were supported by teachers and pupils who refused to cross their picket line yesterday

School Strike Solidarity

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ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...
Unison leader PRENTIS on the picket line during last year’s NHS strike

GPs WON’T STRIKE-BREAK!

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THE UNIONS will call off next week’s NHS strike if a ‘tangible offer emerges as a result of current talks with Tory health secretary...

Abbas calls for immediate end to Israeli occupation of Palestine

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank,...
NHS trade unionists marching in London on November 3rd to defend the NHS against the privateers

£300 TO CHANGE A SOCKET! – unions slam ‘obscene’ PFI profits

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Public sector unions yesterday condemned the huge fees being charged for making ‘operational changes’ to contracts by PFI privateers. This followed a National Audit Office...

Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers

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angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...
The front of the occupied National Opera House in Athens, with the central banner reading: ‘Theatre is our streets, art is uprising’

Greek Banks Downgraded!

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Three of the top Greek banks have been downgraded by the economic agency Moody’s, after losing 70 per cent of their share price in...

Israel Launches Air, Land And Sea Strikes Against The Palestinians In Gaza

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ISRAEL has launched air, land, and sea strikes, hitting a so-called safe zone in southern Gaza, where thousands of internally displaced Palestinians have sought...

Parliament – special Brexit sitting October 19th!

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MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...
Firefighters lobby the London Fire Authority against cuts and station closures

‘Thousands of firefighters face the sack!’ – thanks to Public Sector Pensions Bill

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‘THOUSANDS of firefighters face the sack’ as a result of the Public Sector Pensions Bill, which imposes a normal pension age (NPA) of 60...
Firefighters on the October 20 TUC march against cuts – more cuts are expected to be announced today

Osborne to make more cuts today!

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Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...

Crisis Pre-Budget

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Britain has had to face ‘the toughest and most challenging year for the economy’ in which it has seen predicted economic growth halved to...

‘A CHILLING ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR’ –Prentis condemns government cuts

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‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...

98 GP PRACTICES FACING CLOSURE! – says BMA

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AT LEAST 98 GP practices are threatened with closure as a direct result of Tory coalition funding cuts, doctors union the BMA warned yesterday. The...

Biden threatens to cut off military support for Israel

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AFTER widespread outrage over the United States’ continued backing of Israel’s devastating year-long genocidal assault on Gaza, several media outlets reported on Tuesday that...
Marching against the Health Bill on the 63rd anniversary of the NHS last year

Lansley leans on Royal Colleges

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After a joint meeting on Thursday hosted by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, British Medical Association and Royal College of Nursing, the following...
Lively picket of midwives at King’s College Hospital on strike last Monday over the lack of a wage increase

NHS workers slam Hunt’s attack

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‘IF YOU want to talk about waste in the NHS, then stop outsourcing midwives and nurses to agency staff,’ Royal College of Midwives (RCM)...
The Royal College of Midwives taking strike action last year for the first time in their history

‘NO COMPROMISE ON SAFE STAFFING LEVELS’ says RCN

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HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers outside the Hillingdon office of the TGWU insisting that the union leadership back their fight

Tgwu Officials Refuse To Pay Out Xmas Hardship Money

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THIRTY locked-out Gate Gourmet workers gathered at the TGWU union office in Hillingdon yesterday, angry that they were not being given their hardship money...

Greek School Pupils Rise Up

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SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective. Last...

Filton 24 celebrate! – as all main charges are dropped

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YESTERDAY, Wednesday 18th February, the Filton 24 defendants who have not yet gone to trial, were formally acquitted of aggravated burglary. The CPS confirmed they...

‘Indefinite strike to win’ – demand striking bus drivers

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‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...
Saturday afternoon’s march through Enfield demanding the immediate reopening of Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E which won a huge response

Stop Clause 119 – Stop The Hospital Closures!

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THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...
Demonstrators against the war on Lebanon condemn Blair and Beckett for supporting Israel’s ‘blitzkrieg’

LEBANON ‘WAS OUR BREAKING POINT’ say Labour Party members in Beckett’s constituency

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Thirty-seven Labour Party members in Foreign Secretary Beckett’s Derby South constituency yesterday announced their defection to the Liberal Democrats at a press conference at...
Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son's murder

‘The whole airport must come out’ demand Gate Gourmet workers

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‘THE whole airport must come out to win our jobs back and to defeat the victimisation of BA workers who took sympathy strike action...

Grenfell Tower – ‘We paid the price’

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‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...

Families face debt crisis!

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2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...

Truss Backing Call For UK Citizens To Fight In Ukraine

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TORY Foreign Secretary Truss and Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy were united in calling for an escalation of military and economic war against...

BMA Demonstrates At Tory Party Conference

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THOUSANDS of NHS workers and many other trade unionists marched to the Tory Party conference yesterday morning to deliver their notice to the Tories...
Protest against the Housing Act outside Parliament as Tory Chancellor Hammond delivered his Autumn Statement

Tory War On Workers

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CHANCELLOR Hammond used his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons yesterday to warn that the Tory war on the working class and poor...

HUGE US UNEMPLOYMENT RISE – as Obama meets his advisors

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US president-elect Barack Obama discussed the financial crisis and other big problems with world leaders yesterday. He spoke by telephone with the...

Bank of England raises interest rates! – predicts energy costs rise of 40% by...

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UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...

‘BACK TO THE DAYS BEFORE THE NHS’ – Consultants leader slams the Health Bill

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‘Very deliberately the government wishes to turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, when there were private, charitable and co-operative providers of...

Tories hammering poor!

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LABOUR’S shadow communities minister Hilary Benn has accused the government of unfairness in a letter to council leaders that shows that cuts for richer...

Bankrupt Budget!

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In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...

Huge increase in ASBOs

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday condemned the huge increase in the number of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) issued as the government steps up its...

CALL FOR £168bn OF CUTS – to reduce ‘Debt Time-bomb’

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THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...